Class Action Waiver Strike Upheld In DRC Suit

Law360, New York (November 19, 2007, 12:00 AM EST) -- An appeals court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that struck a class action waiver on grounds of unconscionability under state and federal law in a case brought by two former managers against technology services firm Dynamics Research Corp.

In a ruling handed down Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, a two-judge panel said that based on the particular facts of the case, it upheld the decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to strike the class...